Versos English Michael Wigglesworth Cxxxix. [118]

English poem

Cxxxix. [118]

by (1631–1705)

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“It’s now high time that ev’ry Crime   be brought to punishment; Wrath long contain’d and oft restrain’d,   at last must have a vent. Justice severe cannot forbear  to plague sin any longer, But must inflict with liand most strict   mischief upon the wronger.